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Scandit develops software for mobile enterprise apps for barcode scanning, text and objects recognition, and delivering real-time insights through AR.Scandit is helping business users and consumers to augment the physical world with relevant digital information in real time through barcodes, images, and other visual identifiers captured with smart devices such as smartphones, Wearables, drones, and robots.Over the years the company has evolved into a world-class team of mobile image processing, cloud-computing, and “Internet of Things” experts from around the globe. It has developed a culture of thought leadership and innovation that perpetually aims to break new ground in the mobile AIDC space. Many of the world’s most innovative and successful companies are already reaping the benefits of Scandit’s next-generation mobile data capture platform.The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and is also represented in San Francisco, Boston, London and Warsaw.

ELSE Corp is an Italian startup that offers technological solutions for 3D based Mass Customization such as Virtual Retail and Cloud Manufacturing to fashion brands, retailers, manufacturers and designers; using E.L.S.E., a Cloud API Platform, powered with AI, Machine Learning and deep learning, puts together the front-end retail processes such as 3D product personalization and virtual commerce, with a cloud-based back-end processes like virtual fitting and order generation for smart hybrid manufacturing. The startup is committed to creating value not only for the market but also for society by redefining the Value Chain for the fashion industry through Applied Research. ELSE CORP relies in open innovation and collaboration with industry leaders to develop innovative sustainable, transparent and traceable business processes and Distribution Models through market trials. Their services, named “Virtual Retail”, aims to accelerate the transformation of the industry towards a personalized, direct to consumer, customer-pull approach, enhancing the customer’s virtual shopping experience and optimizing the Virtual Retail value and service delivery chain.

Optimus Ride Inc. is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. We design technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions. As an MIT spinoff company, we combine over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in selfdriving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar), and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes a decade of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.